Friday 19 September 2014

Flash News: Amazon Plans To Take On Google Adwords

By Omar Rashad


Amazon and Google are kind of adversaries when it comes to online marketing. They have been having a tenuous relationship for a long period of time now. The companies are competing head-to-head when it comes to online product search and delivery services of phones and other mobile devices. But, still Amazon is considered to be one of the largest text-ad advertisers of Google. Amazon also gets a share of revenue by running Google AdSense ads on its site.



There are reports to indicate that Amazon is working on a competitive advertisement platform that resembles Google AdWords. This would no doubt worsen the adversaries between the two online giants in the near future. This platform is said to be driven by the wealth of shopping data that Amazon has been amassing as the world's largest online retailer. This program is called the Amazon Sponsored Links which is said to begin its testings later this year.

Amazon's wealth of product and shopping data would inevitably be a very strong draw for the advertiser who is looking for more reach and flexibility beyond Google AdWords. Even though Google also has its own database of products and product search, it is quite minimal when it comes to what consumers actually buy. Amazon is far ahead of Google in this aspect. They have cleverly amassed this data with features like Log-in With Amazon that allows Amazon's over 250-million customers to use their Amazon credentials when making an important purchase through Amazon or other websites.

Every advertiser would love to have access to the kind of data Amazon has, and if they participate in this program, they can. They can sell their products to people with a history of buying products exactly like theirs. Companies would pay good money for something like that.

Still, Amazon already has a huge portion of the business world on their lap and has defined their niche online. Furthermore, they are already getting a tool ready to go to make sure that businesses everywhere can purchase these new ads in bulk. It's going to be interesting to see what is coming as Amazon continues to steamroll forward as a business that is not only well-established but very innovative.

The huge customer data base of Amazon can definitely make these ads more "click-worthy" to users in the long run. They are far ahead of Google in this regard. This is the salient feature of Amazon in attracting their share of online ads in the long run. This is why the online world is watching the latest developments of Amazon so eagerly.




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